Std Labs announced in August of 1981 the creation of a technical journal dedicated to the international coal industry. The journal was published quarterly in Charleston, WV. The new publication, The Journal of Coal Quality, was the first of its kind to specifically address all phases of coal quality, including methods, testing, sampling, consulting, and […]

In 2010, SL made an asset purchase of AC&S, Inc. lab instrumentation, equipment and other assets. AC&S is a chemical manufacturing and blending company located in Nitro, WV that operated an environmental lab. The lab was used primary for internal quality control for their own manufacturing processes. However, AC&S also provided analytical services to other

In 1994 Std Labs decided to use a part of the Evansville Coal Laboratory to develop an environmental effort to augment its coal business in that area. This initiative was called Standard Environmental and was managed by Judy Snider who had been an integral part of Tim Steiner’s staff in the coal lab there. Roger

In 1994 Std Labs decided to use a part of the Evansville Coal Laboratory to develop an environmental effort to augment its coal business in that area. This initiative was called Standard Environmental and was managed by Judy Snider who had been an integral part of Tim Steiner’s staff in the coal lab there. Roger

IN 1997 Std Labs initiated a new wholly owned consulting service organized and lead by Mick Samples.

In the early 1980s Jim Howarth of Mineral Consultants Incorporated (MCI) of Adelaide, Australia attended an International Coal Testing Conference in Lexington, Kentucky. At that conference he gave a paper on his company’s new products including instrumentation for the on-line analysis of coal. The paper described a new technology using gamma rays to predict ash

The International Coal Testing Conference (CTC) was conceived and planned by the corporate staff of Std Labs in the fall of 1980. The idea was to enhance the company’s image both nationally and internationally by initiating a trade show to create a special identity for coal testers and coal testing equipment manufacturers. This effort, perhaps

In the fall of 1979 the company offered a new quality control service program to all laboratories involved in coal testing throughout the world. In essence, the program provided fresh coal samples collected from various locations which had been carefully prepared to strictly adhere to protocols ensuring representativeness across all samples. This allowed any lab

In a part of the upstairs office space in the new building around 1976 a new company named “Standard Instrumentation, Inc” (SI) was created as the first wholly owned diversification attempt. A local physicist, Allen White, whose dad was the Island Creek Coal Company’s lab management had just graduated from college and wanted to bring